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Dark Matter Inelastic Scattering with Nuclei for Direct Detection

Shao-Feng Ge, Oleg Titov, Yakun Wang

Published
September 16, 2026
Updated
September 17, 2026
Identifier
arXiv:2609.16529

Why it is here

The apparent high-recoil peak can depend strongly on the nuclear calculation, with the compared event rate differing by up to a factor of 25.

Machine-assisted summary

The authors recalculate elastic and nuclear-excitation responses for xenon-129 and xenon-131, finding that the event-favored effective operator can behave very differently from shell-model predictions near 248 keV and in the lower-energy sideband.

xenon nuclear responsenuclear excitationeffective operatorsnuclear theory uncertainty

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